Water at War
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Some thoughts on the leveraging of water in the service of war…
Dikes and dams are some of the oldest pieces of infrastructure known to human civilization, and war is perhaps humankind’s oldest communal activity. We have many examples of states destroying the infrastructure that holds or channels water in order to win military victories. Indeed, in some cases the militarization of water infrastructure has been critical to strategies of national survival. Here are some of the more recent examples of the mobilization (and destruction) of water infrastructure for the purposes of war.